National Bank & old houses from there to Armat St. from cor[ner] of Market Sq[uare], [Germantown] [graphic].

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National Bank & old houses from there to Armat St. from cor[ner] of Market Sq[uare], [Germantown] [graphic].

Date

April 10, 1889

Physical Description

1 photograph: glass negative; 5 x 8 in.

Description

Glass negative showing a view of the National Bank at 5504 Germantown Avenue, a two-story stone building with an elaborate
cornice and decorative iron bars over the windows designed by James Charles Sidney (1819-1881). Trolley tracks run down the
center of the brick road. A telephone pole stands in front of the bank and a lamp post stands on the corner to the left. Other
buildings line the road to the right. The National Bank of Germantown was chartered by the state of Pennsylvania in 1813 and
began operations in 1814 in the parlor of the house of Dr. Charles Bensell. The bank built a new building on this site in
1868. The building was altered in 1890, 1907, and 1930.

Notes

Time: 8:00 AM

Light: Good sun.

Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris
Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris
Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan
White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.